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The end of the film.

posted 12 years ago by efaldk-349-274444
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Could someone explain what happened in the last scene. The boy on the beach gives Martha a small creature, and claims that it is a miracle. Has one one the kittens survived? It does not look like a kitten to me?

[–] chuck-526 12 years ago

The small creature is a fish ...no connection at all with kittens.

My interpretation (I may be wrong here) is that the "miracle" was simply _life_, and the message was that any creature (including Marta) that continues to be alive to its surroundings will turn out okay.

[–] efaldk-349-274444 12 years ago

Thanks. That makes sense to me.

[–] pontifikator 12 years ago

Here's my guess: the guy says he'll show her a miracle, and he puts a small fish in her hands, which flips around. A fish out of water, it's still alive.

I think the director is suggesting that Marta is on the verge of forsaking catholicism but that like a fish out of water, she'll survive.

[–] efaldk-349-274444 12 years ago

Good point.

[–] veiacava 12 years ago

it isn't a fish, like is said down here, but a lizard's tail, that has been cut off, but hadn't stop moving yet.
there are many theories about the meaning of this...

[–] efaldk-349-274444 12 years ago

According to Wikipedia:
Autotomy (from the Greek auto = "self-" and tomy = "severing") or self amputation is the act whereby an animal(i. e. a lizard) severs one or more of its own appendages,usually as a self-defense mechanism designed to elude a predator's grasp. The lost body part may be regenerated later.
Perhaps the lizard's tail becomes a metaphor for the girl's situation towards the end of the film.

[–] veiacava 12 years ago

that's one way of looking at it, yes.
the way I saw it, it was a way of saying that there is an afterlife, because he says "this is a miracle", and what is the miracle there? we have to see it through the eyes of a little boy. that a dead thing - the tail - can still move, it's alive even tough it's dead. and the rest of the lizard is still alive. the lizard had part of himself killed, and still, he is alive. there is something after we are dead, there has to be, and the boy still believes it.
am I making myself clear? is kind of hard to explain (english is not my main language)